Emotional Moments
List of highly emotional moments in comic books and other comic-book based media.
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1. Batman: Under The Red Hood
That ending - "This is the best day of my life!"
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2. Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
"I didn't count on being happy."
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3. Batman: Ego
Martha Wayne's pearls on Christmas morning. Thomas promising Bruce that he and Martha won't die until it's their time.
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4. Gotham Central: Half a Life
That ending.
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5. Batwoman: Elegy
Kate's stance to keep her integrity and be true to herself...and her downward spiral.
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6. Gotham City Sirens: Songs of the Sirens
"Love? I have seen love. It is a burden more than a joy."
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7. Catwoman: When in Rome
Selina's dreams of Batman.
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8. Batman: Hush
Bruce's longing for Selina while visiting Metropolis. Recounting Barbara Gordon's career as Batgirl, followed by that shot of her, alone, strapped to her wheelchair.
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9. Batman: Haunted Knight
Bruce's mother reading him Alice in Wonderland as his last warm memory of them alone together. (I'm a massive Lewis Carroll fan, ever since I was little, and I personally connected with that sub-plot enormously.)
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10. Batman: Dark Victory
Dick and Bruce on the other sides of the mirror, with Alfred telling Dick, as he wished he told Bruce, that he "is not alone".
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11. Flashpoint: Project Superman
Kal as a child instinctively coming to Lois's defense after showing no connection to anyone else. His doodle of Lois on the wall of his isolation chamber.
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12. Flashpoint: Batman Knight of Vengeance
Thomas and Martha as Batman and Joker standing over their son with hands locked. Martha's greatest fear - that her son should suffer the fate of being Batman.
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13. Flashpoint: Deadman and the Flying Graysons
"Alright, Graysons, how do we swing?"
"With grace."
"How do we fly?"
"Like birds."
"And how do we land?"
"Together."
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14. Flashpoint: Kid Flash Lost
Kid Flash losing to give all life a chance.
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15. Flashpoint
Thomas's letter to Bruce at the end.
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16. Seven Soldiers: Zatanna
"Gnirb em eht nam fo ym smaerd." "You were my greatest spell, my gift to the world."
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17. Batman Black And White
"Good Evening Midnight" and the final line of "Two Of A Kind" - "And then I just waited for you to show up, as you always do, to take me back to where I belong...with the rest of the crazy people..."
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18. Batman: Heart of Hush
Bruce's confession of love.
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19. Batman: A Lonely Place of Dying
Tim Drake telling Batman why he needs a Robin. Tim being able to lift the cinder-block to save Batman and Nightwing, mirroring the moment in Legends of the Dark Knight: Venom where Batman couldn't lift the stone to save the drowning girl.
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20. Batman: No Man's Land
The Huntress' final struggle to protect the shelter from The Joker at the end.
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21. Secret Six: Unhinged
Scandal's vision of Knockout...
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22. Justice League Dark
Zatanna's self-sacrifice. "And that's what I thought you'd say. See, the problem is...the world just can't afford to lose you. Me, I reckon, it could get along just fine without."
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23. 52
Vic Sage to Renee Montoya while lost in the Himalayas and Vic seconds from death..."Some things you have to accept...Time to change, like a butterfly."
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24. Batman: The Black Mirror
Comissioner Gordon saving James from falling off the bridge; mirroring the events from Year One. "I told you. Not this time, James. I'm not letting you go!"
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25. Batman: Legends of the Dark Knight
LOTDK: Sleeping - Bruce and Mary embracing each other as they're shown what their fate could have been had Bruce never become Batman.
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